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Re: NEEDED: notes about Hatikva

In a message dated 6/5/97 9:45:34 AM, you wrote:

>B"H Basle, Switzerland
>
>1) Does anyone know FOR SURE who composed the melody?
>    Imber? Kosakoff?

The melody is a ubiquitous folksong found all over Europe.
Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia to Rishon LeTsiyon, a pioneer
Zionist settlement in Erets Yisrael, began to sing Imber's poem in 1882 to
the tune of Carul Cu Boi, a peasant folksong that he remembered from his
native land.
It caught on!

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